Bug#941198: initscripts: packages should ship systemd units

[Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>]

Ansgar <ansgar@43-1.org> writes:

> How to proceed with this?  Do you still require any wording changes?

I think we can proceed to add a Policy "should" for including a systemd
unit file unless someone raises objections pretty soon here.  So far, I
haven't seen any objections to the basic idea.

> Or should we consider making shipping a sysvinit script, but no systemd
> unit a RC bug?  Dmitry seems to be concerned that people might just
> waive it away; I don't think this needs to be a RC bug, but it might
> slow adoption.

Making it an RC bug seems much too aggressive to start with.  We can look
at whether that makes sense later, but right now it would make far too
many packages instantly buggy.

We're doing some of that already even by introducing a "should," and
there's some argument to be made for starting with a Lintian warning
instead, but I'm not inclined to be that conservative here, mostly because
we're long-overdue for saying something, and I think the should is fairly
mild in this case.

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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)              <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>